On: Hall of Shame: companies violating the ffmpeg license (GPL/LGPL)

[mhansen]

Jeez, I don't even know what MediaCoder has done wrong here. If they're not linking against ffmpeg, just piping to it, MediaCoder's code doesn't need to be GPL'd, right? Anyone care to explain? These ffmpeg guys sure aren't.

[nash → mhansen]

Did you read the FIRST post in the issue tracker? http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/msg5911

He is shipping binary only versions of a modified version of ffmpeg. He needs to comply with the licence for that code, which (vastly simplified version) means he needs to supply source in some way.

[Usual disclaimers apply about lawyer, and not being same, especially with regards to the legal obligations]

[barrkel → nash]

No he isn't - he's shipping unpatched ffmpeg, compressed with UPX.

[mhansen → nash]

The first post says they modified MPlayer (not ffmpeg)

[_cbsz → mhansen]

From the discussion, it sounds like MediaCoder needs to ship source for mplayer and ffmpeg.